Twiggy Quotes

If you're in the public eye, you're constantly scrutinised. I was called too thin and then too fat when I was overweight. It's just a shame those are the reactions people have.

When I first went to visit different agencies in New York, a lot of them were like, 'You have to lose a lot of weight.'

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are voluptuous. So I didn't really want to diet. I just wanted to tone up.

If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.

Women's bodies are meant to store fat so that we can do amazing things like have babies or rock a tight pair of jeans.

Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).

I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one.

It seems like people are more likely to tell you you've gotten too thin than to tell you you've gotten too fat.

'Skinny' is only one body type.

I have a boy's body. I would prefer to have more curves because I think that's more beautiful. I would much rather have J. Lo's body than mine.

Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.

I'd want to have Gisele Bundchen's body. Even though she's tall and skinny, she does have curves... and I think that's hot. Halle Berry also is kind of amazing.

When I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded compliment - they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'

I'm not too hard on myself about dieting and exercise. Some stars are a little too bony for me. What happened to the booty?

I'd like to be curvier.

It's ridiculous that we are in a place where we feel like we can classify and dismiss certain groups of people just because of the way they look, or we have these standards of health - like, cellulite is something you need to get rid of. No, it isn't. It's just a part of people's bodies.

I am shocked as to how much importance my weight garners in the world we live in. I don't know why it is so important, to be honest.

I should be allowed to be voluptuous or scrawny of my own volition, without people going on about it.

The people I look up to most are actresses such as Kate Winslet and Amy Schumer, who have never been size zero and are judged on their bodies of work, not their bodies.

People don't just want to be thin. They want to be curvy.

Oh my god. I just hung around with an unpretty person. Excuse me while I go home to scrub myself with expensive body wash and a pink loofah, to rid myself of the unpretty germs.

In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

Adele is another problem. I never said that she was fat. I said that she was a little roundish; a little roundish is not fat. But for such a beautiful girl... after that she lost eight kilos [17.6 pounds] so I think the message was not that bad.

I look in the mirror and it's hard for me. I am really thin. I want to look fit and beautiful and sexy, and I can't.